Comments on: Microsoft reflects on Ryse review scores: “Metacritic is a complicated topic”https://www.vg247.com/2014/02/14/microsoft-reflects-on-ryse-review-scores-metacritic-is-a-complicated-topic/
VG247.comTue, 29 Jul 2014 08:36:38 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3By: dkpunkhttps://www.vg247.com/2014/02/14/microsoft-reflects-on-ryse-review-scores-metacritic-is-a-complicated-topic/comment-page-1/#comment-586069
Sun, 16 Feb 2014 20:58:12 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-586069I’m with some of other guys here. I loved this game. I wrote it off after the reviews then came across it a month ago. Just beat it last night and I thought it was great. Gameplay can sometimes get a little boring but it’s fun no doubt. Of course the graphics are the best I’ve seen so far this gen. Just goes to show you can’t listen to the reviews.
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Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:37:15 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-586037@Mr Sparkle

Which is why I commented underneath the post correcting myself to say I meant Crysis 2…

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Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:20:25 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-586030@Panthro Crytek had nothing to do with Far Cry 2. Ubisoft published AND developed that one.
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Sat, 15 Feb 2014 00:26:47 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-585777First time i trusted an online job add and managed to make 90$ in 5 hours… CashStoredcom
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Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:41:02 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-585770@karma – I wouldn’t say it was a QTE fest. You could play most of the game without doing the QTEs (I think some boss battles had mandatory events), and on the higher difficulties it was actually rather challenging, and the combat was thoughtful (not button mashing at all).

Ryse’s problem was that it was so GOD DAMNED BORING.

Seriously, it was ridiculous how static the gameplay was. After the first two chapters there was nothing new to do. No new abilities, no new weapons to use, no new enemy types to fight.

The only reason I kept playing was because the story was okay enough to keep me interested, but by the end I was utterly exhausted from the rinse and repeat gameplay.

I think part of this had to do with Crytek’s decision to keep the combat grounded in reality and as historically accurate as they could. Therefore, being a Roman soldier, it was just sword and board the whole game (with a very awkward and useless ranged attack thrown in).

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Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:46:03 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-585730@kimikazio User review scores are even more untrustworthy, look at how Call of Duty got dive bombed on Metacritic from user reviews and Battlefield 3 on Gamefly. If I want a game, nobody’s gonna talk me out of it. If I don’t want a game, nobody’s gonna talk me into it. I’ve played too many games that I like that got low review scores and hated on by gamers and watched too many “crap” movies that I enjoyed to take other people’s opinions as gospel.
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Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:21:14 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-585722Deflection of blame is the most unoriginal and lazy PR tactics in the book, but then, it’s not like they’re going to just outright admit that it’s a bad game.
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Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:17:55 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-585721lol that’s because they cant pay metacritic to tell everybody the same lie “our game is awesome, buy it, and also buy some dlc”

metacritic are user’s reviews. player’s free reviews. so those can be trusted, and not websites’ where M$ cames first with a bunch of dollars entitled: “tell everyone that our game is the best”.

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Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:30:55 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-585710It still sounds like they think what they like, is something that everybody else SHOULD like too.

Personally I never played it and I never will because I dont like the look of any of the trailers. Even if the gameplay was somehow amazing and not what it looked like, a QTE infused game that wanted to be movie, I would still never play it, simply because I have zero interest in the subject matter.

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Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:39:37 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-585695I liked the game for sure. Sure the combat is repetitive, but so is every hack & slash game. The ending was pretty bad ass I have to say. All in all I would have given the game a 7.5 – 8.0 for a review, not the crap scores these journalists gave it. I actually own both next gen systems and own every game and have to say it’s the prettiest game out there with Killzone coming in a close 2nd. I would also rather play this than Killzone Shadow fall, that game is also repetitive but still fun to play.
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Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:08:56 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-585687“If you look on Amazon, we are rated 4 out of 5 stars by direct consumers.”

Yes but if you look on Metacritic, they are rated 5.9 by direct consumers.

If it had a Metacritic score of 90+ I’m sure they would be singing a different tune!

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Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:11:28 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-585666I will never take reviews serious again, as I borrowed Ryse off a friend and passed the game and still ended up buying it my self as I really loved the game.
The only thing I found boring and repetitive is the online coop but the single player Im doing over again on legendary and I still love it!
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Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:47:16 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-585664I liked the game. This is why I take reviews with a grain of salt because really they are just someone else’s opinion, not gospel. Some people found it repetitive, I didn’t. I got so into it that I caught myself saying the “fire volley” voice command as if I were Maximus from Gladiator.

While I prefer frame rate, for the most part, over graphics, Ryse did put a smile on my face the 1st time I played it

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Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:59:13 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-585645@Mike W Ryse has great graphics, but the gameplay is very boring, repetitive and uninspired. But since a lot of gamers bought the game anyway and some even liked it, you can expect more game with great graphics but no gameplay in this generation.
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Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:41:59 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-585637Ryse’s repetitiveness and those God-awful quick time events killed it from being a decent game. The only good thing I have to say about it is that it’s indeed a gorgeous looking game and gives me hope what MS has in store for us this year.

But staying on topic, it’s publisher’s own fault for feeding into metacritic’s bullshit system.

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Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:17:45 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-585579I completed Ryse, found it very boring and lacking real substance, neither less it was a beautiful looking game, interested to see what they do with a Ryse 2
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Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:10:51 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=448637#comment-585569“Ybarra explaiend that Crytek’s priority with Ryse was to make it a visual show-piece for the new Xbox One console”.

So you left all the gameplay mechanics out. Douchebag. For real. I mean, wtf did you expected? That your game would be acclaimed by all industry only because of stunning visuals settings? Even God Of War 3 suffered from some replayed mechanics but damn, it had it stronge base based in a good gameplay sistem.

Something was left behind in Crytek after Crysis 2 development started.